Accounting & tax
Books that reconcile, filings that land on time, and someone who knows your file before you call. We run the accounting function for businesses operating here — whether you have no finance team yet, or one that needs the compliance work lifted off it.
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Established 2018
Philippine compliance practice
Makati office
Filings handled locally
A team, not a hire
Cover does not leave with one person
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Overview
We take the accounting function as a whole rather than a slice of it: the ledger, the reconciliation, the monthly close, the statements, and the BIR filings that follow from them. One firm, one set of numbers, and no seam between the people who keep the books and the people who file the returns.
The engagement scales with transaction volume, which is why it fits a sole proprietor and a corporation equally. What changes between them is the scope and the price, not the standard of the work.
One set of books, filed correctly, without hiring anyone.
The volume has outgrown the owner but not yet earned a finance team.
A compliance layer alongside an in-house team that is already busy.
Local filing obligations handled by people who file them every month.
The choice
Most businesses reach this decision at the same point: the volume is past what the owner can carry, but not yet enough to justify a finance department. There are three honest answers, and the cheapest one is not always the one that holds.
Someone dedicated to your business, close to daily operations, available on the spot.
Cheaper than a hire, and fine when the need is narrow and occasional.
A team holds the work, so scope and cover are not limited to one person's calendar.
What is included
People use these terms interchangeably. They are not the same work, and knowing which one you actually need is usually the fastest way to a sensible quote.
The finance function itself — run monthly, so the numbers are current rather than reconstructed at year end.
Every transaction recorded as it happens, in the form an audit or a BIR examination expects to find it.
Registration, the filings that follow it, and the renewals that keep the business in good standing.
The questions that are not filings — what your structure costs you, and what to do before a decision you cannot reverse.
Looking for the filing dates rather than the service? Our Philippine Tax Calendar lists the deadlines for the year, and it is the one place we keep them current.
In detail
These are the pieces behind the monthly service. You may already have some of them covered — the useful question is which one is missing, because that is usually where the problem you are feeling actually starts.
The ledger is where every transaction ends up, and everything downstream is built on it — the statements, the returns, the audit file. We post each entry against its source document and keep the chart of accounts consistent, so any figure can be traced back to the receipt it came from.
When the ledger drifts, nothing looks wrong until a return is due and the numbers will not tie.
What you owe, and when. We validate incoming bills against what was ordered and received, hold them in a payment schedule rather than a pile, and flag anything that does not match before it is paid.
Without it: duplicate payments, a creditor nobody expected, and a cash position you cannot see a month ahead.
What you are owed, and how late it is. We raise invoices on time, track settled against outstanding, follow up the overdue accounts, and reconcile deposits that arrive with no reference attached.
Most collection problems are not disputes. They are invoices nobody followed up.
Agreeing the ledger against the bank, line by line, every period. It is the check that catches what nothing else catches: a payment recorded twice, a deposit that never cleared, a charge nobody authorised.
Done monthly it takes hours. Left to year end it takes weeks, and by then the trail has gone cold.
Closing a period means the numbers stop moving so they can be relied on. We review the period's entries, post accruals and adjustments, draw the trial balance and produce the statements.
It is also what turns a quarterly filing into a submission rather than a reconstruction.
Every cost categorised the same way each month, which is what makes one period comparable to the next. Classification also decides what is deductible, so it is a tax question as much as a bookkeeping one.
Without it you have a total, and no idea which line moved or why.
Deliverables
Worth asking any provider before price, because it is the difference between having an accountant and having numbers you can use.
Balances agreed against bank and supplier statements, not estimated.
Profit and loss and balance sheet for the period, in a form you can act on.
Proof of what was lodged and when, kept with the period it belongs to.
The same person each month, who already knows your file when you call.
How the work runs
This is the accounting cycle, and it is the same eight stages every period. Watching a single document travel it is the quickest way to see where a set of books usually goes wrong — and why the answer is almost never at the end.
A receipt, an invoice, a bank statement, a payroll record. Every entry we make starts from a document we can point back at months later. Nothing is recorded from memory, and nothing is estimated to make a total work.
The transaction is sorted by what it actually is, then entered in the journal it belongs to — cash receipts, cash disbursements, sales, purchases. Get this stage wrong and the month becomes almost impossible to unpick later.
The journal entry is posted to its ledger account with the date, description and amount intact. This is the layer trends are read from, which is why it has to stay clean rather than merely complete.
Total debits against total credits. If they agree, the arithmetic holds. If they do not, something is wrong and we find it in the same month rather than the following April.
Accruals, prepayments, depreciation and corrections are posted, so the period reflects what actually happened in it — not merely what happened to be paid during it.
Income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement. This is the point the month stops being bookkeeping and becomes something you can make a decision on.
Temporary accounts — revenue and expenses — are cleared into permanent ones and reset to zero, so the next month opens clean instead of inheriting this one.
A final listing of the permanent accounts. It confirms the close actually worked, and it is the opening position for the period ahead.
Why us
The people keeping your books are the people filing your returns and answering your tax questions. Nothing crosses a vendor boundary, and nobody has to reconcile two versions of the truth.
We take on businesses with no transactions yet and businesses with thousands a month. The scope and the price move between them. The standard of the work does not.
Local filings handled locally, by people who lodge them every month and are in the same time zone as the offices receiving them.
English, Filipino and 中文. Philippine compliance is difficult enough without having to translate it first.
Questions we get
No, and it is the most common starting point. We set the function up from scratch: the chart of accounts, how documents reach us each month, who signs off what, and the filing calendar for your registration type. You do not need anyone in-house for it to work.
Yes. Catch-up work is routine. We start by establishing where the records actually stand rather than assuming, then work forward period by period until the books are current — and tell you honestly what the gap means for any filings that were due in the meantime.
Both, and that is the point of having one firm. Bookkeeping that is not tied to the filing calendar tends to produce a scramble at each deadline. When the same team closes the period and lodges the return, the numbers being filed are the numbers in the ledger.
Compliance is the work that has a deadline attached — registrations, returns, renewals. Consultation is the work that does not: whether your structure is costing you, which registration type fits, what to do before a transaction. Most clients need the first continuously and the second occasionally.
We work through it with you. That sits under tax consultation rather than routine compliance: reviewing what has been raised, assembling what the examination asks for, and advising on the position to take. Having the books in order beforehand is what makes that manageable.
Yes, as its own service — payroll runs, statutory contributions and payslips. It is priced separately from the accounting engagement because the volume drivers are different, but the two are usually taken together.
It is driven by volume rather than by the size of the company: how many transactions a month, how many bank accounts, whether payroll is included, and what state the books are in when we start. That is why nobody can quote it off a price list honestly. Send us those four things and we will come back with a figure and what it covers.
Usually yes, and earlier than most owners expect. The cost of a missed filing or a set of books that has to be reconstructed at year end tends to exceed a year of monthly bookkeeping. Small engagements are priced small.
Yes. Some clients keep bookkeeping in-house and take only the compliance filings or the consultation. It works best when we agree early who reconciles what, so the numbers being filed and the numbers in your ledger are the same numbers.
Our Philippine Tax Calendar lists the deadlines for the year in one place, and it is where we keep them current. If you want to know which of them apply to your business specifically, send us your registration details and we will mark up the ones that are yours.
Current, behind, or not started — it changes what we do first, not whether we can help.